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Thursday, October 18, 2007

CFP: British Society for Ethical Theory

Via Professor Solum, a call for papers for the British Society for Ethical Theory.

Call for PapersTHE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR ETHICAL THEORY2008 CONFERENCEUniversity of Edinburgh, UK14-16th July 2008

Invited Speakers: Barbara Herman (UCLA), Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund)

Papers are invited for the annual conference of the British Society for EthicalTheory, to be held at the University of Edinburgh. The subject area is openwithin metaethics and normative ethics. Papers on topics in applied ethics orthe history of ethics may also be considered provided they are also of widertheoretical interest.

Papers, which should be unpublished at the time of submission, should be inEnglish, no longer than 6500 words, readable in at most 45 minutes and in aform suitable for blind review. Please send your submission electronically, andinclude an abstract, as well as your full name, address and academicaffiliation. Those who submitted papers for our previous conferences-successfully or otherwise - are welcome to submit again (though not of coursethe same papers!).

Please tell us if you are a postgraduate student: submissions from postgraduatesare encouraged as our aim is that some such should be represented at theconference. Selected conference papers will be published in the journal EthicalTheory and Moral Practice. Please make clear in any covering letter whether youwish your paper to be considered for publication here as well as for theconference programme.

The deadline for submissions is 7th December, 2007.

Papers and accompanying particulars should be emailed to Dr. Elinor Mason:Elinor.Mason@ed.ac.uk

Note that ONLY electronic submissions will be accepted.

The BSET conference is a major ethics conference held annually in or near theUK. Our programme normally comprises around 11 papers, 2 invited, the restsubmitted. Submitted papers are blind refereed. All those we select for theprogramme are assigned a generous time allocation (around 75 minutes, 45minutes reading time, 30 for discussion) and all papers are given to plenarysessions. We are a "British" society only as regards the geography of where wehold our meetings and such trivia as the way we spell "programme"; we seek toattract submissions from an international field. Submitted papers read toprevious conferences have included work by Robert Audi, Margaret Gilbert, DanJacobson, Maggie Little, Rahul Kumar, Mathias Risse, Henry Richardson, MichelleMason, David Sobel, Valerie Tiberius, Jeanette Kennett, David Owens, MelissaBarry and Garrett Cullity among many others.